Health Blog Category: stretching
Add Stretching to Your Daily Routine to Improve Your Health
Is it possible to increase your total health, wellness, and quality of life with a few simple physical motions? When it comes to stretching, the answer is unmistakably yes. For this reason, stretching exercises are a common part of physical therapy.
You might be shocked to see how many different ways stretches can benefit you. Here are some of the main reasons why our physical therapist could recommend stretches to help you live a better life.
Read full blogFeeling Better Through Yoga & Physical Therapy Treatment
Everyone desires to be healthier, stronger, and more active. This may sometimes feel difficult to accomplish, due to pain, injuries, or poor diets.
Pain increases undesirable chemicals in your body that cause stress, creating a challenge when it comes to exercise. All of this also affects your endocrine system, which regulates your hormones and controls almost everything happening in your body!
Thankfully, there are many exercises that can effectively ease your pain while simultaneously strengthening the affected part(s) of your body.
Read full blogStill Feeling Off? Introducing The Complete Yoga Program!
Are you done with physical therapy but still feel a little off?
Do you still feel like something is missing?
Are you still feeling a bit unsure about your body?
Don’t worry, this is all a very natural feeling. In fact, it’s something that we hear quite often from our patients that are nearing the end of their time in physical therapy. For many patients, there is still a lingering feeling of unsteadiness that remains, with a bit of fear about how their body will hold up after they are done with their PT program. “But my physical therapist says my physical therapy is done, so what gives?”
Physical Therapy Gets You Back To Function
What many must remember is that physical therapy is the pathway to getting back to being functional again. For example, if a person is unable to walk, for whatever reason, physical therapy helps that patient get back to the point where they are able to walk again. Physical therapy; however, is not meant to help that patient take that next step, such as if a patient now wants to a couple of miles each day, or, better yet, get to jogging as a part of a good daily health plan. That next step, where a person has daily confidence in their body and is also looking to get even better, is up to the patient to find on their own.
Read full blogTop 3 Stretches For Runners
With indoor gyms still closed in the tri-state area and more and more people looking outdoors for a workout, my patients have been asking for top stretches for runners in order to deal with pain that has come up as a result of running, jogging, and walking on pavement and roads, as opposed to treadmills that lessen the impact on joints.
As a certified sports physical therapist that has focused on training runners for almost 20 years, I myself and both used and recommended these 3 simple stretches for all my runners, as they are they have been shown to be the most reliable, overall, for both preventing and relieving pain.
Read full blogImprove Your Overall Health with These 5 Stretching Benefits
Stretching daily is something that a lot of people don’t think about doing on a daily basis. The truth is that stretching is a necessary component not just for exercise but for general health and wellness as well! According to physical therapists, stretching is an important part of one’s daily routine, whether you’re exercising or not.
The 5 Benefits of Daily Stretching
- Stretching specific exercises prior to exercising helps the muscles to achieve maximum range of motion.
Try These 3 Stretches First Thing In The Morning For Pain
Do you greet the morning with a smile, or do you wince in anticipation of the pain you’re about to experience? If the first motions you make to start your day are painful enough to make you think twice about getting out of bed, you’re certainly not alone. A variety of conditions can cause morning aches and pains. The good news is that you can get that discomfort out of your way through some simple physical therapy techniques.
Read full blog5 Reasons Why You Need to Start Stretching
If there’s one thing that you can count on a physical therapist introducing into every session, it’s stretching. Yes, building strength and endurance is important. But whether you’re an athlete, or someone coping with the aches and pains of aging, increasing your flexibility through stretching is crucial. Read on to learn more about some of the top benefits of stretching and how Complete Physical Rehabilitation can help through our Elizabeth & Jersey City, NJ physical therapy services!
Read full blogSimple Knee Strengthening Exercises
In my last blog post, I went over my 3 steps to maintaining healthy knees. In particular, steps 1 and 2 stressed strengthening certain muscle groups, namely the muscles around the knees. But if you’ve never done this before, it can be difficult to figure out which muscles and specific exercises to start with. So let’s begin with two great starting points, shall we?
Read full blogBack To Sports With Physical Therapy
For high level athletes, returning to sport as efficiently and effectively as possible is of the utmost importance. In Alaine’s case, her elbow and hamstring injury had severely impaired her ability to compete as a world class judo competitor. But on the recommendation of her brother, also a high level judo competitor as well as a former patient of ours, she got into the clinic right away and, with the guidance of Dr. James, got right back to wor
Read full blogBack Pain And Why You Should Stretch
Pain and flexibility. In Physical Therapy, they are so closely intertwined, as flexibility is almost always one of the main culprits as to “why” you have pain, and also one of the primary solutions as to how to get rid of your pain. When a back pain patient starts up a course of Physical Therapy in the Jersey City or Elizabeth clinic, we always incorporate an extensive stretching regimen, and there’s a very simple reason why:
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